Sunday, May 31, 2009

Report from the Circus!

We sallied forth seeking the most storied of mayflies, the Green Drake.
The most elusive of mayflies was indeed found, poor photography skills excused please.
An unexpected encounter with hugemongous black stoneflies pictured above, and unpictured golden stoneflies.
Above photo of the resting place of bazillions of Green Drake spinners, aka Coffin Flies.
Also in abundance, March Brown spinners.
Photo above depicts the ~6 ft. Black Snake which surprised me, and I believe I it.
A mossy root system under the overhanging streamside trees revealed a rather large Dragon Fly nymph case.
Curli models the pool we staked our claim on for the evening. We had to Minion out two pairs of other anglers who sought to share our glorious pool. This was deftly accomplished by either casting directly at them, ala Curli, or threatening them via a long backcast, ala Coach.
As Coach had the only camera on stream, these are his feesh. Above is a fine brown in the 14 inch class, and below is the evening's largest feesh, a brown close to 20", with the landing assist thanks to Curli.
All in all a pretty good showing by the mayflies and the Minions.

Saturday, May 30, 2009

It's On Like Donkey Kong!

The Drakes that is...

See you all at the streamside circus later today!

Thursday, May 28, 2009

In keeping with the Motivational Poster theme...

Day ahead Friday bacon!


Go ahead, just try!

Monday, May 25, 2009

Memorial Weekend Festivities! (Sunday Version)

The scene was scenic and the pictures are picturesque.
The view downstream..
and the view over the rowers shoulder. The Blue cans seemed to be much less of an entanglement hazard than the Sierrra Nevada bottles whilst shooting line to distantly rising trouts.
We added a few more patches to Curli's waders. He is rapidly approaching having more patch than wader.
The Feesh!
Sunday evening was bountiful in the trouts and insectoid categories. Exclusively brown trout rising exclusively to sulphur duns at dusk and slightly beyond.
Stew displays a fine specimen...
Coach shows he can still hang...
Stew, we hate you, but this was a dandy of a brown.






Saturday, May 23, 2009

Memorial Weekend Festivities! (Saturday Version)

The intrepid anglers passing under Hale Eddy bridge.

Said anglers heading of into the fishless sunset.Stew hit paydirt and then, just dirt.

Oh, the humanity!

Stew modeling the latest in ultralight fly rods, the whorvis 18" 5 weight.

Sasquatch on the Delaware found streamside this evening. Sasquatch knows the feesh too.

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Spring Creek 05/18/09

On Monday I decide to make the 2 hour trip up to Spring Creek for wily brown trout. I arrived on stream @ 2:00 pm and fished for about for hour with no luck. Sulfur's were hatching sporadically all day. About 6:00 the Sulfurs starting hatching in earnest. There were big yellow eastern sulfurs (Size 14) and orange miniature eastern sulfurs (size 18). At about 6:30, the fish decided to feed on the surface. That's when things got interesting. The fish were rising but the were divided into three categories: Those taking the small Sulfur duns, those taking emerging sulfurs, and those taking a little of all three. After several frantic fly changes and refusals, I finally arrived at formula that worked. I went with a traditional size 14 dun trailed by a size 18 yellow sulfur emerger. Most of the fish went after the emerger pattern. I was positioned in the run and pool below the handicap platform. After landing fish in the middle of the pool and tail end. I switched to a size 16 no hackle dun and was able to full a few more fish in deep run. By the end of the day, I landed about 7-8 trout all about 10-14 inches. Due to technical difficulties, there are no pictures.

Curly

Monday, May 18, 2009

Just in case somebody wants to get me a cooler for the driftboat...

This is possibly the bestest cooler known to man.
The 35 quart Tundra model Yeti cooler pictured above would be, in my estimation, the most perfectest and bestest cooler for keeping "beverages" ice cold in my fine driftboat.

As you can see below, the cooler is bear proof as well, and approved as such.
At less than $250 this cooler is of course a bargain as well.
Can't you just picture its incredible awesomeness ensconced behind my rowing seat?

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Musconetcong Report!

Escape from the incredibly poor fishing in NY to the scenic and beautiful Musconetcong!
Curli hooked up with this pig on a green rockworm pattern.
The near dark spinner fall yielded this decent brownie...
It was a pleasant but weather challenged weekend.


Friday, May 15, 2009

Friday Bacon, Jersey Style!



Found this bellybuster of sweet delicious sausage wrapped in savory bacon at the Grease Trucks at Rutgers. The Musky fished sweetly today, full report tomorrow.